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Plate Tectonics
Test Description: 8.9B Relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) A tectonic plate of oceanic crust is colliding with a plate of continental crust. What type of crustal features may form?
A
A displaced area of transform faults
B
An arc of volcanoes and volcanic islands
C
A mountain range with no volcanoes
D
Volcanic mountain range
2) A student looks at various satellite views of Earth. She sees many large mountain ranges, including the Andes in South America. What statement could the student make after comparing the satellite views with a map of tectonic plates?
A
Mountain ranges only form along a coastline.
B
Tectonic boundaries do not form mountains.
C
Mountain ranges are formed along many plate boundaries.
D
There are mountains along all plate boundaries.
3) A student is making a model of sea floor spreading. What should the model show on either side of the ridge?
A
Very thick dense crust
B
One side of the ridge should have oceanic crust, while the other side of the ridge has continental crust
C
Rings of volcanoes on either side of the ridge
D
Strips of different increasingly older rocks, which repeat as a mirror image on the opposite side of the ridge
4) Which of the following statements best explains why earthquakes occur more frequently in California than in Texas?
A
California is located on the opposite side of the same tectonic plate as Texas.
B
California is located on an oceanic plate, while Texas is located on a continental plate.
C
The rock in California is sedimentary, while the rock in Texas is igneous.
D
California is located on the boundary of two tectonic plates, while Texas is not.
5) Movement of Earth’s tectonic plates can cause the formation of landforms and natural disasters. The movement of tectonic plates is caused by:
A
Flow of convection currents in the mantle
B
The alignment of the Sun, Earth, and Moon
C
Digging too deep into Earth’s crust
D
Weathering, erosion, and deposition
6) Scientists observe that arcs of volcanoes and volcanic islands are forming in the ocean. What is happening to the tectonic plates?
A
A plate of oceanic crust is converging with a plate of continental crust.
B
Two tectonic plates of oceanic crust are converging.
C
Two tectonic plates of oceanic crust are diverging.
D
Two tectonic plates of continental crust are converging.
7) A convergent boundary is formed when two tectonic plates meet and push against each other. What type of land form would occur at this type of boundary?
A
canyon
B
mountain
C
coastline
D
plains
8) Rift valleys form because —
A
one tectonic plate forces itself under another causing tremendous pressure
B
a weakness in a tectonic plate is repeatedly filled in with magma
C
after three tectonic plates come together one of them stops spreading
D
tectonic plates stop moving and weld together in a permanent formation
9) When the sea floor spreads apart, volcanoes such as those along the Ring of Fire and ridges such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are formed because —
A
ocean water erodes the weak spots on tectonic plates, building ridges
B
sediments are deposited where the floor spreads, causing volcanoes
C
cold ocean water causes fissures that weaken the rocks, causing ridges
D
as the plates pull apart, magma moves to the surface, building ridges
10) Mountains in the Himalayans are increasing in elevation due to —
A
transform faulting of a tectonic plate
B
the action of earthquakes
C
colliding tectonic plates
D
seafloor spreading
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